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Can Trump Really Deport US Citizens to El Salvador?
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0:45Now PlayingPresident Donald Trump has been testing the boundaries of his authority over US immigration policy since he began his second term of office, but he hinted at taking things to a new level when he said he’d support deporting US citizens to a prison in El Salvador.
“I’m all for it,” the president said during an April 14 Oval Office meeting with his counterpart from El Salvador Nayib Bukele, who calls himself the “coolest dictator” in the world and is known for a harsh crackdown on crime.
The tiny Central American nation has already accepted hundreds of undocumented immigrants who Trump unilaterally deported in March under a 227-year-old wartime law after accusing them of being Venezuelan gang members. They’re being held in a maximum security prison that has a capacity for 40,000.
“You gotta build about five more places,” Trump said. “It’s not big enough.” El Salvador needs the new facilities, he said, to make room for American “homegrowns,” an apparent reference to criminals who are US citizens. Trump said he’d like “to get them out of the country.”
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